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Heritage Auctions: "Say it Loud" The John Silverstein Collection of African American Social History

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Auction Name "Say it Loud" The John Silverstein Collection of African American Social History Total Sales (USD) 292,119.25
Auction Date January 15, 2019 - January 15, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 216,320.00
Sale Number #6207 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 324,480.00
Total Lots 383
Sold Lots 300 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 308,800.00
% of Lots Sold 78.33% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 463,200.00
Unsold Lots 83 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 63.07%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
47197

Civil War Archive of Charles A. Hill Relating to His Service in the 1st Regiment Infantry, U.S. Colored Troops.

USD 6,400.00 - 9,600.00 USD 12,500.00
47179

Booker T. Motel Sign.

 USD 1,440.00 - 2,160.00 USD 10,625.00
47120

Move On Over... First Poster With Black Panther Imagery.

 USD 6,400.00 - 9,600.00 USD 7,500.00
47168

38 Press Photographs of Demonstrations in Alabama.

USD 1,440.00 - 2,160.00 USD 5,500.00
47214

The Bull-Dogger (Norman, 1921).

 USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 5,500.00
47007

Escaped Slave Gordon Carte de Visite.

 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 5,250.00
47039

Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991).

 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 5,000.00
47107

Emory Douglas Poster Honoring Fred Hampton, You Can Jail a Revolutionary But You Can't Jail a Revolution...

USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 4,750.00
47308

Join Hands for Equality. Join CORE.

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 4,500.00
47192

Joseph Jenkins Roberts Autograph Letter Signed.

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,375.00
47110

Huey Newton For U.S. Congress Poster.

 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 3,875.00
47012

Frederick Douglass Carte de Visite.

 USD 4,800.00 - 7,200.00 USD 3,750.00
47062

Neil Leifer (American, 1942- ).

 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 3,750.00
47142

Press Photographs (47) of Race Riots and Demonstrations.

 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 3,750.00
47170

Press Photographs of James Meredith (15) and Medgar Evers (4).

 USD 640.00 - 960.00 USD 3,500.00
47051

Flip Schulke (American, 1930-2008).

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,250.00
47102

Emory Douglas All Power to the People Poster.

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,250.00
47140

Press Photographs (42) of the Harlem Race Riots Following the Police Killing of 15 Year Old James Powell.

 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 3,250.00
47182

Maryland Plantation Slave-Made Blanket or Coverlet.

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,125.00
47104

Emory Douglas Afro-American Solidarity with the Oppressed People of the World Poster.

 USD 640.00 - 960.00 USD 3,000.00
47173

Danny Lyon One Man One Vote Poster.

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,000.00
47174

Press Photographs (32) of Civil Rights Demonstrations.

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,000.00
47155

Martin Luther King, Jr. Typed Letter Signed.

 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 2,875.00
47049

Ernest Withers (American, 1922-2007).

 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,750.00
47161

Press Photographs (20) of Rioting and Looting in Chicago in the Wake of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,750.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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